How did the outcome of world war ii contribute to the development of the cold war?

Answer 1

B) It resulted in the United States and Soviet Union developing into the world's most powerful states.:):)

Answer 2

Answer this question… During the war, liberal democracies had occupied Western Europe while the Soviet Union had occupied Eastern Europe.

Answer 3

A Natural Consequence...

The Cold War was a natural consequence of WWII. In WWII you have three primary players; ie. Liberal Democracy (US, UK, Canada, Asutralia, et al.), Fascism (Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain) and Communism (Soviet Union). At the end of the war, only Liberal Democracy and Communism remained (Franco's Spain not being large enough to be of 'global' consequence), so the temporary alliance between the two to defeat Fascism naturally broke down leading, quite naturally to the Cold War.

"The Bomb at the Core…"

"The bomb" was at the core of the Cold War. Everybody wanted that technology and when other countries enlisted the aid of spies to get information about the manufacture of nuclear devices, it led to concern about what would be done with that technology. Concerns grew as nations became more secretive and less willing to openly discuss their plans.

Leadership of the USSR believed that Communism would be far more productive than they ever were. They truly believed that they would be able to out-produce and thereby defeat the free world.

Communism came to the Soviet Union in 1918, the United States didn't trust the Communist as communism's primary goal was to bring down capitalism through any means possible, including revolution, be it overt or covert. They made that quite clear. There was a "Red Scare" in the U.S. in the late teens and early twenties (1918- 1925). Stalin came into power in 1924, and the mistrust intensified.

As Germany built itself up, and started to swallow up Europe, Stalin became concerned about Russia being attacked and the United States watched Hitler take counrty after country. The U.S. and Russia were briefly allies, only because the both had one thing in common, to stop Hitler.

After the war ended, the U.S., Britain, France, and Russia each controlled a portion of Germany. Soviet Russia did not want to allow their portion to be unified into a post-War Germany for fear that the Germans would again be an aggressive and powerful invader. They blockaded Berlin which forced the U.S. to circumvent the blockade by flying planes over and dropping food and supplies to the Berliners.

Meanwhile, Russia was helping Communists successfully gain control the governments of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania. Their section of Germany became the Communist held regime of East Germany.

Also, in the 1950's was the "Red Scare" and McCarthyism, where Sen. McCarthy and his cohorts, started to accuse American citizens of being active Communists. The Un-American Committee was formed to bring people, in the U.S., to account for their real, or alleged (imagined), communist beliefs. Fidel Castro taking Cuba, in 1959, ninety miles off of Florida iced the Cold War even more. The Bay of Pigs, in 1961, didn't help where the U.S. aided some Cuban exiles in trying to take Cuba back from Castro. And, of course, the U.S. and Russia almost exchanged nuclear weapons over the installation of nuclear missiles installed in Cuba (known as the Cuban Missile Crisis) in October, 1962. Eventually, the Russians were forced to remove their missiles in Cuba.

From there, both sides built nuclear weapons (though it is alleged that Russia stole the secrets from the U.S.), aimed at one another, were actively spying on one another, and for the next 45 years, they both played global chess in areas such as the Middle East, Korea, Vietnam, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, Somalia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, to name a few places.

Many of the Cold War proponents in the U.S. saw a "domino effect" meaning that when one nation goes communist, so will its neighbors. This is not all that wrong of an assumption since communism does openly proclaim the need to bring down any, and all, capitalistic governments. In the seventies, most of the chess game was played in Africa, South and Central American, and of course, the Middle East. Leonid Breshnev was an able leader of Russia's for twenty years til his death in 1982, able, that is, when it came to keeping the U.S. on it's toes in its attempt to match Russia's gains in the Third World.

When Gorbachev came to power, in the mid 1980's, much of Russia's Communist apparatus was dismantled, and the Eastern European nations were allowed their freedom.

Answer 4

1. In the last year or so of WW2, Soviet forces liberated (or 'liberated') several countries in Eastern and Central Europe, namely: *Poland *Part of Germany *Romania *Bulgaria *Hungary *Part of Austria *Czechoslovkia *Parts of Yugoslavia In the case of Germany and Austria there were agreements between the Allies on how these countries were to be admininstered. However, in all the other countries, Soviet-style 'socialist' r

Answer 5

With the Allied victory, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the major world powers. The two had major idealogical differences - politically and economically - and had only formed an alliance in the face of the bigger threat - Nazism and fascism. As soon as the war was over, these differences surfaced in several post-war issues.

A defeated Germany was divided up, with each of the four major Allies getting an area to control. America and the others except for the Soviet Union soon united their sections into West Germany, which they attempted to reconstruct and aid, to enable the German people to reorganize and reestablish independence.

The Soviet Union, however, held on to their section, which became East Germany. The country was thus divided into two, East Germany and West Germany, for decades. While the independent East Germany enjoyed democracy, freedom, and relative high standard of living, East Germans suffered under the communist regime. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, did not allow them their independence, out of fear that a reunified Germany would once again pose a threat to his country. Thus the disagreements over post-war Germany became a stage for the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States.

This is only one example. The postwar years brought chaos to many of the weakened countries, whom the Soviets attempted to sway towards communism, while the United States and its democratic allies tried to keep them independent from Moscow's influence. Thus US Presiden Harry Truman established a policy of containment - keeping communism contained to locations where it had already been implemented, and not allowing it to spread to other countries. To achieve that, Americans approved the Marshall Plan, under which they sent money to struggling countries to stabilize them before the communists could do so.

Eventually, that policy would turn increasingly more aggressive, until America got involved in military conflicts overseas to prevent the spread of communism. The United States also built up its nuclear and conventional arsenal as a deterrant for the Soviets. This buildup, and the subsequent similar actions by the Soviets, is known as the Arms Race.

The Space Race was an offshoot of this competition, as each side attempted to outpace the other in scientific advances.

The citizens of both sides in the Cold War lived in fear of the other's weapons and technological advances, convinced in the justness of their cause and the fallacy of the other's.

Answer 6

World War II created a world where there were two super powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, so fundamentally different that they were naturally at odds. To add to the conflict, many European countries were left greatly weakened by the war, providing the Soviet Union a chance to spread communism, something the United States wanted to avoid.

Answer 7

The u.s and Soviet Union emerged as superpwers

Answer 8

The United States and the Soviet Union disagreed about how European countries should be governed.

Answer 9

During the war, liberal democracies had occupied Western Europe while the Soviet Union had occupied Eastern Europe.

Answer 10

The development by the US of the atomic bomb in World War 2 led most directly to the beginning of the Cold War.